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Honor Your Mentor Funds

Training with the best leads to success, which benefits patients. Now you can show your gratitude through the NREF by honoring a mentor who helped you succeed.

Honor Your Mentor Funds recognize the incredible people who have advanced neurosurgery. Each mentor fund has a specific purpose. Your gift will fund a chosen research or educational endeavor in their name. Don’t see your mentor on the list? Review the fund guidelines, call 888.566.2267 or email info@nref.org to get started.
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Awards to Date

See a list of awards made from Honor Your Mentor Funds.

Mentor & Interest

Stewart B. Dunsker

To be utilized for clinical or basic science research and fellowships in spine.

Takanori Fukushima

To recognize the highest scored microneurosurgery abstract at the AANS meeting.

Thoralf M. Sundt, Jr.

To fund neurosurgical education and research within the Mayo Clinic...

Todd Albert

To increase the involvement of orthopedic spine surgeons in training ...

Ulrich Batzdorf

To support basic science research in spinal cord injury.

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To fund resident research in the Department of Neurosurgery...

Volker Sonntag

To be utilized for clinical outcome studies, fellowships in spine and clinical or basic science research.

W. Jerry Oaks

To support clinical and basic science research and training in cerebrovascular neurosurgery.

Warren Boop

To support resident education and research within the department of neurosurgery ...

Warren R. Selman

To support clinical and basic science research and training in cerebrovascular neurosurgery.